aco Veteran Posted December 27, 2001 Veteran Share Posted December 27, 2001 My pagefile has always lived on my C: drive, but recently I read this at the MSKB. Should the pagefile be moved to another partition? By default, Windows places the pagefile on the boot partition where the operating system is installed. To determine the size of the pagefile multiply the amount of physical RAM by 1.5 to a maximum of 4095MB. However, placing the pagefile on the boot partition does not optimize performance because Windows has to perform disk I/O on both the system directory and the pagefile. Therefore, it is recommended that you place the pagefile on a different partition and different physical hard disk drive so that Windows can handle multiple I/O requests more quickly. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;EN-US;Q197379 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionfusion Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 The pagefile should be on the same partition as the OS, unless you have two or more physical harddrives, then move the pagefile to a different harddrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeza Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 i've read lately that a lot of ppl that have 512 mb of ram or more disable theirs so thats what i did and arent having any problems yet ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glowstick Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 If you have one one partition, the pagefile goes on the same where the OS is. If you have multiple partitions, put it on the one which hangs on the outer tracks of the disk (more speed). If you have multiple disks, put it on a disk where there aren't OS files, and preferable a disk which is fast and least used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionfusion Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 I read this intereseting article where they said to keep the Pagefile on the same partition as the OS. Why?, will if you keep all the OS files on one partition and the Pagefile on another partition on the same drive, then the read/write heads would have to move from one partition to another to read and write information between the two partitions. Now if the pagefile remained on the OS partition, the heads would not have to move such a long distance to write the pagefile and then back to read OS files. Make sense yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimman Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 move it to the disk that is used the least... that's just as logical as it gets, can't see why u are having trouble realizing it... it's virtual ram basically, so u do want performance right? and you won't get performance if the disk is used much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionfusion Posted December 27, 2001 Share Posted December 27, 2001 Grimman, from the intial post, I pick up that he only has one drive with 2 or more partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aco Veteran Posted December 27, 2001 Author Veteran Share Posted December 27, 2001 Originally posted by ionfusion Grimman, from the intial post, I pick up that he only has one drive with 2 or more partitions. Thats right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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